Temporary profiles remain even after clearing out

On Windows 7 in an AppV and UEV environment, the profile fix highlighted in previous post has been run but users logon and still get temporary profiles, or even 2 profile folders, one proper and one temp which may be only partly populated.

The solution is to run thru the previous fixes, but in addition, manually search through the registry for the username and modify any entry referring to any instances of temp profiles.

E.g. search for bigpindy, you may turn up bigpindy.domainname.005, either as a reg key name or a value.

In either case, modify all of these entries to just bigpindy. You may have some keys that need renaming, others that the data needs modifying. If any return an error saying a key/entry with this name already exists, this key/entry will be OK to delete.

*disclaimer* modify your registry or profile at your own risk, I've done so hundreds of times and, touch wood, have yet to break a PC or Server, by simply ensuring I take care when faffing in Windows Registry.

Extensive Profile reset

For local profile resets, most admins will go ahead and delete various folders in

C:\Documents & Settings\<username> (2K/XP)
or
C:\Users\<username> (Vista & above)

but that's not all that needs to be done...

open the registry and go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

There you'll see a list of folders with SID's for names, some long and some short. You need to delete the long named ones (but check each, in case it's essential to your specific environment)

Don't delete the short named entries, or the account you are logged in with.

Then go to the preceding key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileGuid

check each guid's SidString isn't related (equal) to any of the remaining SIDs from ProfileList. Delete any that don't match and leave those that have a matching entry in  ProfileList